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the flames that were approaching their prophet Mahomet's tomb 
at Mecca, by the fervency of his prayers, he being at that time at 
Mahim, in the island of Bombay. At Salvesong, the furthest part 
of this inlet, the Franciscans enjoy another church and convent; 
this side is all covered with trees of cocoas, jacs, and mangos: in 
the middle lies Verulee, where the English have a watch. On the 
other side of the great inlet, to the sea, is a great point abutting 
against Old Woman’s island, and is called Malabar-hill, a rocky 
woody mountain, yet sends forth long grass. A-top of all is a 
Parsee tomb, lately reared; on its declivity towards the sea, the 
remains of a stupendous pagod, near a tank of fresh water, which 
the Malabars visit it mostly for. 
“ The President has a large commission, and is vice-regis; he 
has a council here also, and a guard when he walks or rides abroad, 
accompanied by a parly of horse: he has his chaplain, physician, 
chyrurgeons, and domestics; his linguist and mint-master: at 
meals he has his trumpets usher in his courses, and soft music at 
his table: if he moves out of his chamber, the silver staves wait on 
him; if down stairs, the guard receives him; if he go abroad, the 
Bandarines and Moors, under two standards, march before him: 
he goes sometimes in his coach, drawn by large milk-white oxen, 
sometimes on horseback, and at other times in a palankeen; 
always having a sumbrero of state carried over him: and those of 
the English inferior to him, have a suitable train. But for all this 
gallantry, I reckon they walk but in charnel-houses, the climate 
being extremely unhealthy.” 
“ Happy then are those, and only those, brought hither in their 
nonage, before they have a gust of our Albion; or next to them, 
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